Jonathan Doan's biography, Grant Township, Clare County, Michigan

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JONATHAN DOAN, Biography / Clare County, Michigan

Biographical History of Northern Michigan, B.F. Bowen & Company, 1905.

JONATHAN DOAN

	He to whom this sketch is dedicated has the management of the fine farm property 
of A.P. Brener, Grant township, Clare county, and is one of the popular and 
representative citizens of his section.  Mr. DOAN was born in Norfolk, province of 
Ontario, Canada, on the 26th of March, 1849, and was reared to maturity in his native 
province, where he was afforded the advantages of the common schools, while he early 
began to assume the practical responsibilities of life, being dependent upon his own 
resources for the attaining of independence and success.  He continued to reside in 
Ontario until he was about twenty-six years of age and in the meanwhile was married.  In 
1877 he came to Michigan, in company with his wife and two children, and located in 
Sanilac county, where he engaged in farming, being to a large extent in the employ of 
others.  He remained in said county until 1897, when he removed to Gladwin county, this 
state, where he continued to be similarly engaged until March, 1903, when he came to 
Clare county and assumed his present responsible position as manager of the Brener 
farm, which comprises four hundred acres and which is one of the best improved and 
most attractive rural domains in this section of the state.  Mr. DOAN is a man of energy 
and progressive ideas and is liberal and public-spirited in his attitude, while he has so 
ordered his life as to merit and receive the fullest measure of popular confidence and 
regard.  In political matters he is arrayed as a stanch supporter of the principles and 
policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, but he has never sought public 
office of any description.  He is the owner of forty acres of unimproved land in Gladwin 
county, and when expedient will turn his attention to developing this property, which is 
certain to greatly appreciate in value within the coming few years.  Mrs. DOAN is a 
consistent and zealous member of the Baptist church, which our subject attends and 
supports, though no formally indentified with any religious organization.

	In Norfolk county, Ontario, on the 22d of October, 1871, Mr. DOAN was united 
in marriage to Miss ESTHER E. KAAKE, who was born in that county on the 28th of 
December, 1849, and to them have been born twelve children, of whom six are living, 
namely: WILLIAM, THOMAS, JOHN, AI, JOSEPH, and HERMAN.  Concerning the 
deceased children we enter the following brief record: MARY, who was the eldest of the 
children, became the wife of WILLIAM NICHOLS and her death occurred in Oakland 
county, this state; SARAH and ANNA died in infancy, as did also two sons, EDWARD 
and FREEMAN; and HANNAH J. died at the age of fourteen years.


Submitted for use by USGENWEB Clare County, Michigan  October 2002  
wilkinschw@aol.com